[ti]harder[/ti]EPIC BOSS FIGHT AND DROP LEVEL

I might start making videos of those who have not provided a video/auto ID of their level (if it's too hard) so I can be helpful at providing judges an easier job. I will also provide you with a judge of mine, but keep in mind I'm bad at judging and I'm not a mod nor an official gd judge, and I'm also bad at making levels.

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=165m_j6nEzo&feature=youtu.be
(note I'm sorry I died at 96% , but the only thing you missed was a cool text of his username)

Judge time:

1. Gameplay:
A very nice welcome for every player is the first icon part. Very easy and nothing too hard about it. Then comes the ship part. At first when I haven't practiced it, I didn't know what killed me. Was it the circles or the block looking thingies? Anyways after you go through practice mode, you know how and what to do. As far as for gameplay, you can glide on the ground for quite some time and then fly up when you have to dodge some circles? spikes? I'm not sure what they are. So you have to put hazards/spikes on the ground and perhaps the top? (I didn't check I was busy gliding on the ground) Nothing too special about the ship part, no orbs no straight fly, just balanced flight nothing else. Then we get to the drop. The transition from cube too wave is a little bit timing and it made me struggle for quite a long. Then from wave to cube again, I experienced a bug with the portals making me upside-down at the end which made me have an upside-down ship as well and then followed by a sweet death from the next portal. But after the wave to cube, there is ship where you have an easy flight. Pretty cool considering the fact this is the drop. (cool for me I've been playing too many hard levels recently, k thanks) Then another cube with a pink jump pad in it launching you to a wave part where you do some timings, again quite easy. Then from wave to UFO. The transition killed me quite some times as well, but that's my fault I guess. Otherwise UFO pretty easy you just do it: 1, 1-2. Then another cube with a pink jump pad launching you to two green orbs followe by a mini-ship part which you have to straight fly a little. Then another wave with no portals no anything. Nothing too greesy. Pretty easy. Then launched from cube to a ball. In the ball you have pink orbs which you have to spam. But DO NOT overspam as it turns out if you enter the next portal, which is ship and you are spamming too hard you will get launched in the sky, hitting the lovely top. But if you don't hit it, good for you get another easy flight. Then after the ship another ball part with same story as the first one where you shouldn't overspam or else you get launched in the sky from the next ship. Then after you take the easy flight once again there is a wave. The transition there seemed to kill me quite a few times in practice mode. But other than that I guess not too bad for a wave. Once again with a cube and a pink jump pad launching you to two green orbs. And then comes the next part, the 'boss' fight. Nothing too special about it, just stay in the middle and be careful not to die to the annoying transition from wave to mini-ship, which killed me a lot in practice mode as well. Then the missiles? Stay slightly in the middle and then slightly up. Then comes the most annoying part. The moving objects wave. Coming out of nowhere these blocks are really deadly. They killed me so many times it made me cry. I'm so lucky to get past them on a video on normal mode, otherwise I would have had to cry myself to sleep. But yeah other than that really annoying. Use yes moving objects that are making the blocks come to the player leaving him with barely one block of a distance in between. Most annoying part was that. Then is a free flying ship part leading you to a cube part. Once again same story as beginning, nice little easy end, nothing too special, barely any timing required. Then it launches you suddenly to a ball part (in which I almost died of panic lmfao) where you have to go to certain blocks and it requires quite some timing. I personally didn't find the transition very nice because you don't see any portal ahead of you nor any sign. Then ending gravity portals which let you see the name and suddenly a ship part which makes you (probably only me) die at 96% because you weren't expecting that...

Gameplay score: 6/10. The moving objects wave removed some points and so did some annoying transitions. Otherwise easy and fun.

2. Decoration: Starts off black and white. When I was first introduced to it I really didn't like the idea because well black and white is quite overused in some sort, but playing it more and more I started liking it. The blocks have some pieces of art into them, some sort of symbols in one of them, not bad. The custom background centered well and doesn't take the whole screen which adds a nice atmosphere to it for me. Getting to the ship part. I didn't get the point of white emerald like figures. They were there to confuse me the first time nothing else. Otherwise I guess not too bad, but a little empty at some points. The first cube wasn't empty because it was filled mostly with enough blocks. Then we get to the drop. The blocks are just black no effects into them. Most slopes have wrongly chosen corner pieces. Next time use the corner pieces for the slopes not for the straight blocks. I can see you were focused on the custom background. It wasn't too bad it used the music as its priority. You used flashy effects of the background going black and then coming back white again at the transitions, which is a nice touch. You have some flashy arrows to narrate your way as well. But one thing I noticed was when the flashes were happening I saw spikes on the slopes. I kind of felt sorry for how it was undecorated and you just see it there lonely. Next time please put it invisible or do something else with it like giving him new clothes (decorate it). All the orbs/portals/jump pads are black which fits the level. There are also some chains going on in the background,some arrows as well, not too bad so far, in fact I'm liking it. We get to the boss fight. For me I personally didn't like how from black and white went to colored boss fight. This ruined it for me. I guess I was getting too used to the beginning, but I don't know I didn't like it. So you have a lot of flames in the ground and the top, the pixelated boss which looks nice, but sadly the colors ruined it a little and some warning where to go and where not to at the first wave. When he fired his lasers I lagged a little bit, so maybe next time don't copy paste them too much? or make them less. I also liked how there was some kind of electricity/shock effect when he was firing them, adds a nice touch to it. Then the mini-ship part. Nothing too special a mini version of -Sirius- boss balls at the robot end. Then into a wave once again with the blocks being the same old black blocks with no decoration. There is also the same custom background that was at the beginning at the drop as well, but with purple color which also ruined it... Then you turn into ship once again and I liked how you made the screen break. It was an okay effect. Then to the end part which is the same as beginning, I have nothing to explain here. Also the text 'For Xaro' at the end almost no one will see it, It's in the corner, even I barely saw it. I had to pay attention really close to see it...

Decoration score: 6/10. Don't ruin what you created in the beginning with your colours. That's the main thing. Next time don't leave the spikes empty and maybe more decoration for the wave slopes/blocks.

3. Sync: The first cube goes okay with the music. The atmosphere is quite nice for the standard. Then the ship doesn't have much to do with the syncing so it still goes okay... Then there is the short cube part which transitions you to the wave which is a nice 'Get ready' effect. Then the drop. At some parts it's synced well and at some not. The spammy orbs were synced okay. For me most of the time the drop sounded like a really hard spammy part with either straight fly, jitterclick wave or orbs, or some hard ufo where your finger dies. But you still got it in some way. Then is the boss fight which isn't synced. That's all I have to say, next time sync your boss a little more. And then the final part which also adds a little nice atmosphere to it.

Sync score: 7/10. Next time you definetely need to sync your boss fight.

4. Originality: Like I already said black and white or black and other color that makes the level look neon is starting to get overused. (unless you have some kind of effect to show the geometry dash world that hasn't seen before) The blocks had good pieces of arts in them in the beginning which wasn't too bad. Nothing too original about the ship part. Not much of a bonus that I can find in the drop as well. The boss fight gives you a -1 bonus, because it's a boss fight and they are getting overused as well. And finally the end once again, which is almost the same as the beginning so no bonus there too.

Originality score: 2/10. Black and white kind of ruins it and at the same time it doesn't. Boss fight removes points. Same end as beginning.



So from all the wall of text that I'm pretty sure you didn't read here is the final result:
21/40 (Good level). It has some good stuff and has some bad stuff. If you saw what I said from the other scores and improve yourself with it maybe it will get better. But I see potential with the good stuff and I think you can perform very good! Anyways my opinion is that this has a small chance to get rated 7 stars with no feature.